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(11) EP 0 672 966 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
13.12.1995 Bulletin 1995/50

(43) Date of publication A2:
20.09.1995 Bulletin 1995/38

(21) Application number: 95102163.3

(22) Date of filing: 16.02.1995
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)6: G03G 15/00, G03G 15/16
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 14.03.1994 JP 41675/94

(71) Applicant: MITA INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD.
Osaka 540 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Hayashi, Shigeki, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka 540 (JP)
  • Ueda, Hiroyuki, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka 540 (JP)
  • Ogawa, Hirotsugu, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka 540 (JP)

(74) Representative: Patentanwälte Beetz - Timpe - Siegfried Schmitt-Fumian - Mayr 
Steinsdorfstrasse 10
80538 München
80538 München (DE)


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    (54) Transfer apparatus


    (57) A transfer roller which transfers a toner image to a recording sheet (P) fed in a gap between a photoreceptor drum (1) and the transfer roller (3), and a pre-transfer guide (4) guiding the recording sheet (P) are pushed to be displaceable by a spring (11) by use of a roller (2) so that a predetermined gap is maintained between the photoreceptor drum (1) and the transfer roller (3) and that the positions of the transfer roller (3) and the pre-transfer guide (4) depend on the position of the photoreceptor drum (1). The recording sheet (P) on which an image has been transferred is conveyed to a conveying guide (5). A post-transfer guide (6) which receives the abutment of the end of the image transferred recording sheet (P) and guides the recording sheet (P) to the conveying guide (5) is provided to be displaceable integrally with the transfer roller (3) and the pre-transfer guide (4). The post-transfer guide may be made of a resin with a resistance of 10¹⁰ Ω to 10¹⁶ Ω.






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